372443 - Need ability to restrict auto-completion to certain address book(s) for an account

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Beck]

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It would be nice to have some way of linking an address book with an account for the purposes of auto-filling recipients when composing a message.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create more than one address book, create more than one mail account
2. Compose a message to be sent from one account
3. Enter a short string in the to: field to have recipient address auto-filled
Actual Results:  
The systems auto-fills the recipient field based on popularity of the string in previous emails.

Expected Results:  
The system would restrict itself to searching a limited subset of all address books so that emails normally associated with one account will not be suggested when composing an email in another account.

Order-of-preference of address books, exclusive address books, I don't have a specific preference, just some way of separating the autofill suggestions.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Confirming RFE.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

This is a more complex (and more useful) variant (not exactly a dupe) of Bug 220370:

Bug 220370: *Global* (cross-account) option to select AB(s) for autocomplete (probably easier to implement given the current structure)

This bug: *Per-Account* option to select AB(s) for autocomplete (more complex, much more powerful for multiple account setups)